Flash and Dazzle

By Ronald Anthony

This book won the reader's choice award in the Salt Lake County Library System.
I really enjoyed it because it appeals to my generation X post-modern schema. Another reason why it is appealing is because there are a lot of novels about friendship relationships between women but rarely novels about male friendships.

Flash and Dazzle are the nicknames of two guys who met in college. Flash is a copywriter, and Dazzle is an artist. They worked together since their freshman year of college and find a jobs together at a hip advertising firm in New York City. They live the ideal young bachelor lifestyle. They have access to the best restaurants, girl friends to go out dancing with, disposable income and high tech games in their apartments. When Flash discovers the illness Daz had been hiding, their relationship based on games, girls and fun deepens. Flash finds out things about his friend that he had never known, and reframes his focus to the things in life that really matter.

The thing that's so cool and post-modern about this novel is that it has a built in soundtrack. It is framed around the CD's of mid-90's pop songs that the characters listening to at different points in the novel. A play list is included in the end note.